"finger millet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: finger millets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} finger millet (usually uncountable, plural finger millets)
  1. A plant, Eleusine coracana, grown as a cereal in parts of Africa and Asia. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (lifeform): Cynodonteae tribe grasses, Grains Synonyms: African millet, African finger millet, ragi, goosegrass, coracan, coracan millet, nachani, natchnee Translations (a plant grown as a cereal): ዳጉሳ (dagusa) (Amharic), 穇子 (Chinese Mandarin), 䅟子 (cǎnzi) (Chinese Mandarin), fingerhirse [common-gender] (Danish), ބިންބި (bin̊bi) (Dhivehi), éleusine [feminine] (French), cargaari (Fula), cergeeri (Fula), Fingerhirse [feminine] (German), નાગલી (nāglī) (Gujarati), támbà (Hausa), रागी (rāgī) (Hindi), मड़ुआ (maṛuā) (Hindi), シコクビエ (shikokubie) (Japanese), ರಾಗಿ (rāgi) (Kannada), mũgĩmbĩ [class-3] (Kikuyu), 손가락조 (son'garakjo) (Korean), മുത്താറി (muttāṟi) (Malayalam), കൂവരക് (kūvarakŭ) (Malayalam), റാഗി (ṟāgi) (Malayalam), പഞ്ഞപ്പുല്ല് (paññappullŭ) (Malayalam), नाचणी (nācṇī) (Marathi), korakan (Norwegian Nynorsk), галмуг (galmug) [Iron] (Ossetian), ਰਾਗੀ (rāgī) (Punjabi), ਮਦੁਆ (maduā) (Punjabi), дагусса (dagussa) [feminine] (Russian), коракан (korakan) [masculine] (Russian), uburo (Rwanda-Rundi), रागीधान्यम् (rāgīdhānyam) (Sanskrit), කුරහං (kurahaṁ) (Sinhalese), කුරක්කං (kurakkaṁ) (Sinhalese), ragi [masculine] (Spanish), mijo africano [masculine] (Spanish), mwimbi (Swahili), mbege (Swahili), கேழ்வரகு (kēḻvaraku) (Tamil), குரக்கன் (kurakkaṉ) (Tamil), రాగులు (rāgulu) (Telugu), ರಾಗಿ (rāgi) (Tulu), gbeam (Tyap)

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    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "mbege"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kēḻvaraku",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "கேழ்வரகு"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kurakkaṉ",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "குரக்கன்"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "rāgulu",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "రాగులు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tcy",
      "lang": "Tulu",
      "roman": "rāgi",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "ರಾಗಿ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kcg",
      "lang": "Tyap",
      "sense": "a plant grown as a cereal",
      "word": "gbeam"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finger millet"
}

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